Jan. 7
The 9s
Stir Live and Loud, Harrah’s Casino, Council Bluffs
9 p.m., $5, 712.329.6000, harrahscouncilbluffs.com
There’s this … thing going around. A sort of neo-soul/funk. It’s apparently all the would-be rage. Just look at the last thing Ariel Pink did. Unlike the golden days, the performers are predominately white. Filtered through the lens of latter-day irony. The 9s, one of Omaha’s answers to...

Through Feb. 25
Scream the Truth at the World: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto
Jewish Community Center Art Gallery, 333 S. 132nd St.
Gallery hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., FREE, 335-6564, jccomaha.org
“What we were unable to cry and scream out to the world we buried in the ground … I would love to see the moment in which the great...

For seven years while UNO criminology professor Pete Simi lived with and researched neo-Nazis, death threats against him and his family were common.
“[It was] one of the things I had to get used to, in terms of doing interviews and hanging out,” Simi says. “‘If we ever find out you’re a cop, we’ll hunt you down and kill you. We’ll hunt down and kill your family.’”
Simi’s brazen research was...

The publishing industry has undergone a major shift in the past few years, and is still reeling from the double whammy of a lousy economy coupled with the introduction and growing adoption of e-readers. The way we consume information is changing.
And it’s these e-readers — Kindle, Nook and the iPad to name three — that will continue to morph and shape the way we interact with books. Though the printed,...